Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology

Ethnographic data, environmental information, and a site structural analysis of the spatial distribution of bone and debitage, suggest that the site location was employed to process deer and manufacture/rejuvenate flaked stone tools. However, experimental and archaeological data involving projectile point rejuvenation and breakage suggest the site served also as a deer kill location. Furthermore, the site assemblage, dominated by projectile point rejuvenation debitage and fragments of lanceolate, dart, and arrow points, is interpreted as representing a multiple weapons system technology utilized in a communal hunting situation.